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SPRING SUPPORT FOR VEHICLES. No. 398,180. Patented Feb. 19, 1889.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

DAVID M. PARRY AND THOMAS H. PARRY, OF INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA.

SPRING-SUPPORT FOR VEHICLES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 398,180, dated February 19, 1889.

Application filed November 17, 1888. $erial rim 291,164. (No model.)

To all whom it 12mg concern:

Be it known that we, DAVID M. PARRY and THOMAS H. PARRY, citizens of the United States, residing at Indianapolis, in the county of Marion and State of Indiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Spring-Supports for Vehicles; and we do here by declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention in two-wheeled. vehicles relates especially to improvements in springsupports, the object of the invention being to so Construct a spring-support that it will be cheap, durable, efficient, and practically antifrictional, and to so connect it to the shaft of the vehicle that it may automatically adjust itself to the various positions of the vehiclespring which is connected at its ends to said support and allow said spring to move vertically and horizontally, and to provide a connection between said support and shaft of such construction and arrangement that the support may be quickly and easily connected and disconnected from the shaft without the necessity of removing bolts, &c.

Ve are aware that a spring has been pivotally connected to the shafts of a vehicle by shackles are pivoted at one end to a plate socured to the shafts and at the other end to the spring by bolts, said shackles being each formed from a strip of bar-iron with a hole punched in each end, through which the bolts are extended, as described in Patent No. 266,895, dated October 31, 1882; but this construction we do not desire to claim.

Vith the objects in view above stated our invention consists, primarily, in a springsupport for vehicles, comprising a hanger having a bolt or lug at its lower end to be engaged by the end of the spring and having a vertically-elongated opening at its upper end, a plate secured to the shaft having a hookshaped end with a horizontally elongated or enlarged head to enter the elongated opening in the hanger when the hanger is turned to a horizontal position, and prevent the displacement of the hanger when in a depending position, said hook-shaped end of the fastcordance with our invention, a portion of one shaft only of the vehicle being shown; Fig. 2, a front view of the same, and Fig. 3 a modified construction of support.

In the drawings, A represents the hanger,

and B the attaching-plate, to which the hanger is pivoted and by which it is movably secured to the shaft D of the vehicle. The hanger A will preferably be constructed of a single piece of bar or round wrought-iron bent at its center to form a loop or elongated eye, a, the ends being crossed or overlapped at a point below the bend, as at a Fig. 1, and the two ends below the overlap being spread or remote from each other to form a bifurcated or forked lower end, a the extreme ends being flattened and punched to form bolt-holes, means of straps or double shackles, which i extended, said bolt being secured by a nut,

through which a spring-supporting bolt, a, is

a at the outer face of one of the ends of the hanger A.

If desired, a friction-roller may be mounted upon the bolt.

The bolt a, is engaged by the curved end c of the vehicle-spring (3.

It will be understood that there is one spring support or hanger secured to each shaft, and that one end of the spring engages one and the opposite end the other of said supports or hangers, the spring being secured at its central portion to the body or seat of the vehicle. Therefore, to obviate confusion, the specification describes but one support and its parts, both supports being substantially alike.

If desired, the hanger may be made, as illustrated in Fig. 3, from a single rod bent to form an oblong opening at its lower end, the cross or end bar, a, of which supports the end of the spring, and welded, flattened, and punched at its other end to form an elongated eye to engage the hook upon the fasteningplate B. This fastening-plate will preferably be constructed of malleable iron, with an outwardly and upwardly projecting portion or hook-shaped projection, Z), formed integral therewith, said hook having at its upper end a horizontal elongated head, b the length and breadth of which are approximately the same as the slot in the upper end of the hanger A, said head I) being adapted to enter theslot or eye a when the hanger is turned upward to a. horizontal position, the lower or horizontal portion of the hook forming an axis upon which the hanger swings during movement of the spring 'ly this construction of hanger and attaching-plate it willbe seen that in the normal or depending position of the hanger the elongated head b overlaps the edges of the eye a in the hanger, and that a vertical movement would not displace the said hanger, and that by turning the hanger upward edgewise upon its axis the eye a and head 12 would register with each other and the hanger could be uiickly removed. This plate B will preferably have a flanged barb or burr, b upon its rear face to be driven into the shaft D, a bolt, Zr, being extended through the shaft and plate to secure the same.

The spring will be of the usual se1ni-elliptical form, it having an eye, 0', at its either end, through which the spring-supporting bolt 0; is extended, said spring end being interposed between the ends of the hanger.

If the hanger illustrated in Fig. is used, the spring will have its ends bent partially around and hooked over the spring-supporting bar.

1. In combination, the hanger A, eonsi ructed from a single piece of wrought metal, having an elongated vertical eye at its upper end and a spring-supporting lug at its lower end, and the plate B, having the headed hook to engage the hanger, and the burr or flange to enter the shaft, said plate being secured by a bolt or otherwise, substantially as set forth.

2. In a spring-support for vehicles, a hanger constructed from a single piece of wrought metal, having an elongated eye at its upper end and a removable spring-support alt-its lower end, as described.

In testimony whereof we aliix our signatures in presence of two witnesses.

DAVID M. PARRY. THOMAS H. PARRY.

Witnesses:

W. O. SHIREY, N. E. C. \VHITNEY. 

